Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 826 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1983) No. 9479).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 358 [secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): cviii. [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 276 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 75 [secondary reference]

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 423 [secondary reference]

• Type: Cnicus benedictus L. (typ. cons.)

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 582 [secondary reference]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Cnicus. Flora of New South Wales 3: 328-329 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8: 146 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurea L. legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 197 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurea L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurea L. legitimate

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37: 74 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Centaurea L. legitimate

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